Strike up the band.

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Jazz classics.

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In Sweden.

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Battle stations / by Evans, Richard, Griffin, Johnny, 1928-2008, Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955, Simmons, Norman, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Bonus tracks : Billie's bounce / Charlie Parker (11:29) -- Theme (1:09).…”
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Jazz A-B-Z / by Marsalis, Wynton, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Louis Armstrong -- Count Basie -- John Coltrane -- Miles Davis -- Duke Ellington -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Gerry Mulligan -- Abdullah Ibn Buhaina -- Jelly Roll Morton -- King Oliver -- Billie Holiday -- Charles Mingus -- Nat "King" Cole -- Ornette Coleman -- Charlie Parker -- Modern Jazz Quartet -- Sonny Rollins -- Sidney Bechet -- Thelonious Monk -- Eubie Blake -- Sarah Vaughan -- Fats Waller -- Bix Beiderbecke -- Lester Young -- Dizzy Gillespie.…”

Barney, Bradley, and Max : sixteen portraits in jazz / by Balliett, Whitney

Table of Contents: “…-- Bob's your uncle (George Shearing) -- Herr professor (Walter Norris) -- Goodbye oompah (Harvey Phillips) -- Fortieth (Benny Goodman) -- Aesthetic vitamins (Ruby Braff) -- Bird (Charlie Parker) -- A difficult instrument (Buddy De Franco) -- First and last (Louis Bellson)…”

Woody & Bird.

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Groovin' high.

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Street beat.

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Cool blues.

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Chasin' the Bird.

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Nights of nights.

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Flying high.

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Yardbird suite.

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A night in Tunisia.

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Street beat.

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Red cross.

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What Earl Scruggs heard : string music along the North Carolina-South Carolina border / by Carlin, Bob

Table of Contents: “…(Before Earl) -- The Greatest Musical Tournament in Western North Carolina -- John W. Ross, Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright : Part One -- Mack Woolbright : Part Two and Three -- What Earl Scruggs Heard -- Crazy Crystals and Aristocratic Pigs : The Fisher Hendley Story -- WBT-Charlotte -- Crazy Water and Crazy Bands -- Aristocratically Yours, Fisher Hendley -- Conclusion. …”
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The shadow and the act : black intellectual practice, jazz improvisation, and philosophical pragmatism / by Muyumba, Walton M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Vamping 'til ready -- Three ways of looking at a yardbird : Charlie Parker and the theorization of jazz improvisation in the work of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Black is, black ain't : violence, black masculinity, and the novel as democratic symbol -- Cutting session : Baldwin as prizefighting intellectual, Baldwin as improvising intellectual -- Improvising over the changes : improvisation as intellectual and aesthetic practice in the transitional poems of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka -- Coda.…”
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QuaDRUMvirate : Ronnie Bedford and friends /

Table of Contents: “…Now's the time / Charlie Parker (8:33) -- Out of Nowhere / John Green and Edward Hayman (9:17) -- Oleo / Sonny Rollins (8:22) -- Jitterbug waltz / Thomas "Fats" Waller (6:09) -- I love you / Cole Porter (9:51) -- Stardust / Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish (6:02) -- All blues / Miles Davis (11:24) -- It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing / Duke Ellington and Irving Mills (4:59).…”
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